Demographic and Social Statistics
Meetings
Training Workshop on the Use of Administrative Data for Migration Statistics in Maldives
Male, Maldives
- 10 - 12 December 2024
The workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with Maldives Bureau of Statistics (MBS) and Maldives Immigration
Overview
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) carried out a capacity development mission to the Maldives to accelerate progress towards the production of core international migration statistics in the country as part of ongoing support under the DA 13 project "Administrative data for disaggregated Sustainable Development Goals indicators in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America". The mission consisted of a three-day workshop, 10-12 December 2024, co-organized with the Maldives Bureau of Statistics (MBS) and hosted by Maldives Immigration. The objectives of the workshop were to: familiarize MBS and relevant administrative data producers in the national statistical system (NSS) with the revised conceptual framework on international migration and temporary mobility statistics, discuss steps necessary for integrating administrative data sources across the NSS for the production of migration statistics, and examine available data and metadata across data producers, highlighting discrepancies and methods to harmonize variables. Following the workshop, a high-level meeting on 16 December with the leadership of MBS and Maldives Immigration endorsed the way forward, including the finalization of an MoU governing data sharing. The training underscored the importance of inter-agency cooperation to enhance the quality, timeliness and accuracy of migration data for improved policymaking.
Main documents
Presentations
- Day 1, 10 December 2024
- Conceptual framework on international migration and temporary mobility statistics pdf
- Data sources for migration statistics pdf
- Importance of metadata pdf
- Day 2, 11 December 2024
- Data integration for disaggregated statistics on international migration pdf
- What is needed for data integration for international migration statistics? pdf
- Revision of the 20th ICLS Guidelines concerning statistics of international labour migration pdf
- Day 3, 12 December 2024
- Indicators for disaggregation by migratory status pdf
- Data sharing arrangements pdf
- Alternative sources of data for international migration statistics pdf
- High-level meeting, 16 December 2024
- Conclusions from the workshop pdf